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Jason in Gethsemane

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  It is 23 May 2019, a day for which we have waited a long, long time. Comprehensive and unchallenged affidavits from  Tom Burke ,  John Comber  and  Philip O'Farrell  are turning proceedings on their head. Now the three men are here to be cross examined by John Paul Shortt SC and it is hard to know how Shortt can extricate his client David Dully from beneath the mountain of truth.  But there is a new script. The tables have been turned and instead truth finds itself under the mountain. It is not subtle. Burke, Comber and O'Farrell have all failed to turn up and this means - though the lawyers do not couch it in this way - that we will need to settle the case, and settle on terms which will be written by the opposition. There is a lot of acting going on. Urgency and concern are everywhere, lots of scampering and furrowed brows. The acting is mostly left to the barristers, who fancy themselves as thespians but fall some way short of the RSC. My counsel ...
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'A' wall

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Just to let readers know that the post was deleted by Bloogger.com, not by me. It was flagged for review and judged to have violated the website's Threats and Harassment policy. It is funny how bullies always turn cry baby when their targets find an effective way of fighting back. That said, from Blogger.com's point of view the decision is understandable. The service has already given us a lot and its community guidelines are reasonable and deserve to be adhered to. So from now on, I will adjust future content to err on the side of passive resistance.                                                                     ***** I have three responsibilities:  1. to achieve justice for my company. Not to ensure that my company wins, but to ensure that its hard fought for evidence is considered and weighed against the op...
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IPASssss

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On 16 December last, it was announced that an International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) building project on 11 acres at Lissywollen in Athlone had been cancelled by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O'Gorman. This happened six days after the first 92 residents had moved in. The development is now officially ''unauthorised'', but it is still there. Around a thousand men were to be housed in mostly tented accommodation at the site, which was being thrown together quickly following the ministerial order which bypassed compliance with An Bord Pleanala and EU laws. The legality of the development was challenged by the five Athlone-based county councillors - John Dolan of Fine Gael, Frankie Keena and Aonghus O'Rourke of Fianna Fail, and by Paul Hogan and Boxer Moran of relatively independent persuasions. The five men nominated Hogan to take a High Court case against the Minister.  Hogan and the other councillor...
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Scamdal 5

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How we are played, in five easy lessons 5. THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES                                                                              Smyth  Brendan Smyth was finally imprisoned by our state in 1997, after more than four decades of child molestation and rape. He was first arrested by the RUC in 1991. He fled south at the first opportunity and his trust in the southern Irish authorities was rewarded at first. Then he became a political problem for them.  While on the run, Smyth stayed for the longest time at Kilnacrott Abbey in Co. Cavan, which was run by the Norbertine Fathers. He had a history of protection in Cavan, with the Bishop's secretary and canon lawyer Sean Brady going so far in 1975 as to  - while acting in an 'Ecclesiastical Court' composed of two priests acc...
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Scamdal 4

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 How we are played, in five easy lessons 4. BALLS  The Irish parasite class no longer fears scandal. It may even be willing to create scandal for the sake of scandal, given the opportunities for gain which often follow the infamy. Whatever its motivations or none, it knows it will be looked after and that is all it ever needs to know. Being an Irish parasite is a no-brainer.  And nobody does no-braining quite like the FAI. The 2019 FAI  scandal took a while to explain itself, and the central issue of its St. Patrick's Day introduction is still not fully understood. That was a E100,000 bridging loan from its CEO John Delaney to (he and it claimed) keep the association afloat. It was small change for a rich man who would soon get the money back, but it gave him a nice coating of sincerity to weather the yet to be revealed meat of the scandal.  That would happen properly on 6 December 2019, when honest accounts  revealed undeniably criminal misrepresentat...
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Scamdal 3

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How we are played, in five easy lessons. 3. CHAIRMAN MAO ''Everything under heaven is in utter chaos. The situation is excellent'' - Mao Zedong                                                                              * The Athlone Town Athletic FC match-fixing scandal kicked off in May 2017. While it is the smallest of these five scandals on a national level, it is the one which is broadest in international scope.   It was all kind of simple. The club was caught fixing matches and the FAI was caught facilitating the operation. Step up, Irish law enforcement authorities ... sorry, what?                                                           ...
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